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WLS Original Silver Dollar Survey March 8 1963 Beattles Beatles misspelled

$ 18.48

Availability: 82 in stock
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
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  • Industry: Music
  • Artist/Band: Beatles

    Description

    This is a WLS Silver Dollar Survey from March 8, 1963 in Fair condition, a little minor fading/yellowing across the top, a little roughness across the bottom,two creases on the upper right, five more minor creases across the body. Listed at number 40 is "Please Please Me" by The Beatles misspelled Beattles. The blurb below is from Wikipedia.
    "Please Please Me"/"Ask Me Why", was released by Vee-Jay on 7 February 1963,[25] coincidentally exactly one year before the Beatles' plane landed in New York on their first visit as a band to America.
    Dick Biondi, a disc jockey on WLS in Chicago and a friend of Vee-Jay executive Ewart Abner, played the song on the radio from February 1963, perhaps as early as 8 February 1963, thus becoming the first DJ to play a Beatles record in the United States.[26] Art Roberts, legendary DJ and music director at the time, tells how the record came to be played first at the station:
    "Let me tell you the story of 'Please Please Me'. The record was released on the Vee-Jay label. It was a local Chicago recording company. The owner, Ewart Abner, brought a copy of the record to WLS. I was the music director at the time and listened to his story about a group, and looked at pictures in teen magazines he brought back from England. I figured, what if this group would get as popular in the United States as they were in England and Europe. So I added the record to the list."
    On WLS "Please Please Me" peaked at number 35 on 15 March on the second of its two weeks on the "Silver Dollar Survey", in addition to its two airplay weeks.[26][27] However, the song did not chart on any other major national American survey until 1964.
    The first pressings of the Vee-Jay single, which was assigned the catalog number 498, featured a typographical error: the band's name was spelled "The Beattles" with two "t"s.[28][29] WLS used this spelling on its Silver Dollar Surveys in 1963.
    This is a nice early Beatles collectible.  From what I have read this seems to be the first listing of the Beatles on a survey and may indicate that WLS was the first USA station to play The Beatles.  Buyer to pay .00  shipping and handling. Check my other auctions for vintage auto ,motorcycle , bicycle things as well as other WLS Silver Dollar Surveys .  USA SHIPPING ONLY !